Rima Elkouri

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Rima Elkouri is a Canadian journalist and writer. [1] She is most noted for her novel Manam, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2022. [2]

A journalist and columnist for La Presse , she first published Manam in French in 2019. [3] with the English translation by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott following in fall 2021. [4]

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